Many Wishlist Member users have been asking us how can they make specific content that is currently open for everyone closed for members only after specific time.

The Wishlist Member plugin has very good protection settings that enable you to protect any content under membership levels or pay-per-posts.

However, if you want to change the protection settings of a post or a page after specific period of time, you will be able to do it using Wishlist Auto Protect plugin (in addition to Wishlist Member).

Wishlist Auto Protect Pro allows you to change the protection settings of any post or page on your membership site at a specific date or after any number of days.

For Example:

You can publish a regular post with no protection settings and determine within Wishlist Auto Protect Pro that the post will automatically become protected after 7 days.

Benefits of Protecting Content after Specific Time:

Expose a lot more people to your content for limited time to create:

Engagement for your content

Urgency to consume your content and prevent procrastination

Encourage them to upgrade to paid membership to get access to your other content

How to Use the Plugin?

To set the automatic protection setting, just enter the relevant post or page, define the new protection and time settings in the Wishlist Auto Protect Pro Meta Box, and your content will automatically change its protection settings at the time you determined.

If you want to display members with specific content for limited time only and then change its protection settings so they will not be able to access it anymore then using Wishlist Auto Protect Pro you can do that and also notify members the content will not be available soon.

Benefits of Using Time-Limited Content:

If you completely deny access to the content after specific time – Create urgency for consuming the content

If you move the content to a higher membership level – Encourage members to upgrade their membership to continue to have continues access to the content

How to Display the Time until Protection Settings Change?

Just define the protections settings in the Wishlist Auto Protect Meta Box of the relevant post and add the shortcode : [ wlapp_time_until_change ] to the post itself and the time and date until the protection settings change will be displayed automatically.

For Example:

Post’s current protection setting – Non-protected

You have enabled the Wishlist Auto Protect Pro to protect the post in 1 day

The shortcode will display the time left until the content will become protected – In this case: “1 day 0 hours”

So you can add a sentence for example like this:

“This post will change before available for VIP members only in exactly [ wlapp_time_until_change ]. upgrade your membership now using this link (< link here)”

If you want to boost your revenues you may want to hide (/archive) content from members after a specific amount of time has passed, so they would have access to that content for limited period of time only.

This is the exact approach that Andrew Warner is using on his highly successful membership site Mixergy.com, there he allows everyone to get free access to his interviews and after a period of time the content is closed for paying members only.

Benefits of Time-Limited Content

How to Use the Shortcode?

Just insert the shortcode [wldd_hide levels=”Module1,,Module2,,Module3″ ] … [ /wldd_hide ] to the relevant post or page and define the below parameters:

levels – The list of levels you want to hide the content from

period – The period that needs to pass from the registration date to the specified level before the content will be hidden (for example: “14days” or “4weeks”)

display_message – Display a message when the content is not yet hidden according to the shortcode (parameter is defined as “yes / no”)

message – The message that will be displayed. Message format can include 2 parameters: {{days}} and {{date}} these parameters will be automatically replaced with the appropriate information

Example:

[ wldd_hide levels=”Module1,,Module2,,Module3″ display_message=”yes” message=”This content will be available for paying members only in {{days}} on exact date of {{date}}” period=”14days”] Your content… [ /wldd_hide ]

What Our Customers Say

“Just wanted to let you know that the plugin is working great and incomplete registrations have gone to zero! I’m definitely going to do a review of the plugin and get it for my own site.” MaAnna Stephenson BlogAid.net

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“This plugin is the best way to supercharge your membership signups. I was especially impressed by the developers prompt customer service!” Stan Smith PushingSocial.com

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